Sifflotte

Here are a few more images from the raising and shaping process.

This is one of the middle stages of raising. It's somewhere between a flat circle of copper and a round cup. You can see all the hammer marks on the metal, but those get smoothed out (planished) later.

After the basic shape of the cup was made, I wanted to chase into the metal. In order to hammer on it without collapsing the entire cup, I used wax to support the form. It's a combo of microcrystalline wax and beeswax. I used it first on the outside, and then later filled the cup to support it from the inside. Because of the beeswax, it smells really good.

I needed a pot to melt the wax into, so I went to Ross and got this crazy thing. It was the cheapest one they had, and so stylish!